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07-11-2007, 05:26 AM
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As far as being scale, I knew those antenna(fins) looked wrong. After looking at the Gassaway drawings at the time, and looking at numerous photos, I couldn't find anything that really resembled what was included with the kit. I thought hard about leaving them off, which would have probably given a better scale appearance, but Estes won out in the end.
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07-11-2007, 09:47 AM
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Well, I thought about it and decided just to leave the antenna on. I suppose they're not very scale-like, but I wanted to make this kit more-or-less stock. I'm not planning on entering any scale contests with it, and if I wanted to, I could just build another one, with all the "to-scale" features
 .So the "stabilizing plates" / antenna will stay. And finally: Pictures!
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07-11-2007, 11:53 AM
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Coming together very nicely David. The hard part is done, don't stop now!
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07-11-2007, 01:30 PM
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Exactly! This is a "clone" of an Estes kit, not exact scale. I am doing one clone like this...eventually, when I get everything else caught up and one as close to scale as I can to round A-004 but I'm using the Paul Graff vacuform set. Really nice stuff! I'll post pics when I start. BTW you guys are doing a super job on these...Just beautiful! It makes me wanna drop everything and start on mine.
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10-26-2007, 06:23 PM
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Sandman: in post #15 you show your LJ2 on top of a drawing. What is that drawing, and where did you get it? I need it!! And more similar of that quality. Thanks.
I'm finishing up a ~1/40 LJ2 A-004 kit I bought in '98, it was stored away for the last 8 years during my MR hiatus. Mostly built, except the fins aren't glued on (I used trailing edge wedge stock too) and the wrap isn't attached. Also, I have not decided how to make the LES rocket nozzles yet, none in kit. It is built like a tank for RMS...kinda regret that now that AT reloads are so hard to get here, and expensive, weren't in the 90s. I would like better drawings to polish up any details I can handle before priming, nothing too fancy - it's semi-scale, just anything significant enough to still show up after paint. Trivia: did you know this forum won't allow you to search on "little joe"? Yes, I bet you did...  It is very hard to get to this thread.
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10-26-2007, 10:39 PM
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Interesting. I didn't realize that. I'll see if that can be fixed. Even putting little joe in quotes doesn't help.
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10-26-2007, 10:52 PM
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But if you type in "LJII" it will...
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10-26-2007, 10:54 PM
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Whew! tuff question to answer but, I'll try. That is a lower body roll pattern for detail placement to used on my 4" (1/38.5 scale) Little Joe II kit I made a few years back. I redrew that from the George Gassaway drawings with permision from George. I do all of my work in CAD but then have to print it into a pdf format to post here. I suppose I could rescale it to fit your model. We can try it anyway. What size is your body tube?
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#119
10-26-2007, 11:09 PM
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Re the search: the engine won't allow you to search on "little" and "joe" because they're too common and too short, respectively, and/or...
I couldn't believe that there was apparently so little interest in the LJ2/II here because usually it's a very popular rocket/topic. However, I found this thread because the "rocket blogger" (who posted in this thread also) linked to it in his LJ2 blog page...thanks a lot!Sandman: you don't have to rescale it for me! Just having the info is PLENTY good enough, way more than I ever hoped for. My kit is the Terry Kosel one, same as Scott has stashed away, I am pretty sure it is 1/40, or 1/39.5 Thanks.The bottom section of my LJ2 looks an awful lot like Craig's as he showed it in his last pictures. I even have those little "junction boxes" (??) in balsa exactly like he has. And the long vertical conduit I have looks an awful lot like Sandman's, I did it the same way, what I have of it. Who knows, maybe it was you guys who told me how to do it, years ago...it's not like I invented this stuff, this was the first rocket I ever built (am building) that wasn't an Estes/NCR/LOC/AT kit, so I asked lots of questions... Last edited by CraigF : 10-26-2007 at 11:26 PM.
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10-27-2007, 09:19 AM
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Heh, actually, I can see the box for that one on a desk across the basement from me. Of course I can't get to said desk due to all the rocket stuff piled up around it.  Did your kit come without a chute? Mine did and Terry sent back like $5 or something if I recall correctly.
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